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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 10, 1778
Page
1
Extensive naval intelligence from England reports Admiralty orders and fleet movements, including the Indian Ocean, West Indies, and Baltic theaters. Updates mention the Beazely privateer capturing French West Indiamen, the East India squadron, and convoy actions. Also noted are merchant shipping recoveries, prize captures, and forthcoming sailings of the West India fleet and Hughes’s squadron with strategic coastal fortifications planned.
Postscript continues from the last Paré noting that hundreds of British and foreign troops deserted to the American army at Monmouth Court House, with letters from General Sullivan to Congress dated August 1778. France says Spain opened ports for prizes taken by French and American cruisers with a two percent duty on goods. but prizes to neutral traders are excluded. The King and Queen planned a visit to Warley camp next Monday, with routes through the lines and a mock review. Lord Mayor kept bread price due to insufficient aldermen. Harpooner privateer sailed for Gravesend. Obituaries for Thomas Garrett and Anthony Fryer. Advertisements for Sharman’s Lottery chances and Hemet’s Pearl essence and dentifrice. Stock prices and financial notices follow.
A compact verse pondering power and reward. It invokes Frederick and the Cinque Ports, noting a shifting rise and fall among provinces towns and forts as gratitude and mastership influence favors. The speaker signals a self aware stance with claims of no superior gratitude to none and a lineage of shifting fortune.
A fragmentary verse piece depicts Germaine as risking country’s glory for praise and bypassing foes with secret plans. It hints at appointment as Secretary of State, described as secret as death and closely woven with clandestine triumphs over enemies.
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